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TIL Japan's aging demographic problem is so bad the country sells more adult diapers than baby ones

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XE4g6 TIL in 1982, the CIA successfully tricked the Soviet Union into stealing sabotaged software that oversaw pump valves in gas lines. The CIA used it to close off a massive Soviet gas line, leading to a massive pressure build up and “the most monumental non-nuclear explosion ever seen from space.”
x6mW1 TIL that Nokia was first established in 1865 as a ground wood pulp mill, and derives it's name from the nearby Nokianvirta River, which was located next to the company's original factory.
lOLa TIL in 2005, Scarlett Johansson once auditioned for what was supposed to be a role for ‘Mission: Impossible III’, but turned out to be an audition by Scientology matchmakers for who would be Tom Cruise’s new wife, which she politely turned down.
5nyn TIL California sterilized 20,000 people between 1900-1980 in a state run eugenics program.
1a7Ed TIL that Pope Francis and Pope John Paul the Second are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters